POLICE are making inquiries in Coventry in connection with the death of a man whose body was found in a canal.

Jason Abraham Millership, aged 37, was last seen being bundled into a car outside his house in Tipton shortly before midnight on January 31.

His body was found the following day in the Birmingham Canal, at West Bromwich.

The cause of death was drowning and Mr Millership had suffered injuries consistent with being involved in a struggle.

A Coventry man has been arrested in connection with abduction and is on bail pending further inquiries.

Police said inquiries were ongoing in Coventry, although they were unable to disclose the nature of those inquiries.

They have previously searched premises in the city.

Police believe the father-of-three, who was trying to overcome a drug addiction, may have been taken by people who believed he was linked to a series of drug overdose deaths in the Tipton area shortly before he died.

His father, Gerald Millership, and stepmother, Jacqueline Millership, appealed for anyone with any information to come forward.

Mr Millership said: "We are both devastated by Jason's death and will always remember the good times that we shared. Jason for all his faults was not a bad person - his many friends who will testify to that.

"He did not deserve to be killed, he did not deserve to be found in a freezing cold canal."

Det Chief Insp Matthew Ward, who is leading the investigation, said they were treating the case as a murder inquiry because of the circumstances of the abduction.

A 30-year-old man from Coventry and a 37-year-old woman from Birmingham have been arrested and released on bail.